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Determined to find out why, Martyn flies home to England to track down Peter, Scott's former partner, and is pulled into the club scene of London and Ibiza, full of casual sex and drugs, where the hunter quickly becomes the hunted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eCover design by Slatter-Anderson, cover photography by Colin Clarke. Adult fiction, originally retailed at £6.99.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Idol imprint is highly collectable. The full catalogue has been out of print for years and copies in any condition are increasingly hard to source. 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Written by Robert Black, who produced three titles for the line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe year is 1885. Walter Starling, a shy and religious young man, takes up a new post as footman in the London household of Dr Richard Reynard, a dashing young surgeon and society favourite. Bored of polite drawing rooms and high society rituals, Reynard falls in with Lord Spearman, a sadistic and predatory aristocrat who pulls him into the hidden underworld of homosexual Victorian London. Brothels, flagellation houses, secret cabarets and dangerous strangers. As Spearman pushes Reynard further into extremes, Reynard turns to his young servant for safety, and Walter finds his faith and principles tested against his growing feelings for his master.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eCover design by Slatter-Anderson, cover photography by Colin Clarke. Adult fiction, originally retailed at £6.99. 256 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Idol imprint has been out of print since 2004 and copies in any condition are increasingly hard to source. Robert Black's titles are among the more sought-after in the line. 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Written by Peter Slater.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eRamon, a young Spanish cellist, travels to the remote castle of the legendary Maestro Ernesto Cavallo in search of private tuition. His technique is flawless but his playing is missing something the great musician hears immediately, and Cavallo decides the only way to draw it out is to put Ramon through a series of sexual trials. What follows is a dark, sensual study of pain, devotion, and Catholic decadence, equal parts erotica and Gothic novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eCover design by Slatter-Anderson, cover photography by Colin Clarke. Adult fiction, originally retailed at £7.99. 224 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Idol imprint has been out of print for years and copies are increasingly hard to source. Maestro stands out in the catalogue for its literary ambition and Gothic atmosphere, with appeal beyond the erotica audience alone. 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Written by Rupert Thomas, published 1998.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe year is 1924. James Cardell has finished school and is preparing for Oxford in the autumn, but first he is sent down to spend the summer with cousins in a tiny Kent village. There he can quietly indulge his frowned-upon love of painting and, more secretly, his growing fascination with the male body. Guided by his cousin and drawn into the half-hidden activities of the village lads, James discovers what really goes on behind closed barn doors and finds himself fixated on Gabriel, a beautiful local boy. What begins as youthful curiosity turns into something darker, more obsessive, and harder to walk away from.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eCover design by Slatter-Anderson, cover photography by Colin Clarke. 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